In the Middle of the ninth century one man rose to conquer all of Norway giving all the clans that did not submit a choice, death or exile. Thus, starting a feud that would last for over one hundred years. Through a tangled web involving greed, treachery and lechery one courageous man tries to chart an honorable course
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The battle surged back and forth across the tangle of ships so that very few men were on the ship in which they arrived. Each advance, reverse and retreat cost men’s lives. They went down with cleaved legs, arms and heads, they fell disemboweled or with crushed skulls. Many dead and living men went into the fjord, to such an extent that the water around the tangled ships turned red with their blood. The smell of blood and sound of struggling men in the water brought another participant in this battle, sharks. Scarcely a man who went into the water came back out again.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
